The children in his building want to watch the show with Rahul. He lets them in and they yell out to their friends. His fan club includes kids probably aged 5, 6 and 7.
The door to the Vaidya home stays open and the kids come and go as they please.
A Mumbai tabloid has asked Mumbaikars to support Abhijeet. Rustom is not pleased with this. "Maharashtrians will vote for their lad and the rest of the country will support the other boy," he says. "As it is, people are divided on the basis of language."
He works for the Maharashtra State Electricity Board while Rahul's mother is a housewife. Last week, she watched the show when it was being recorded.